[llvm-dev] Mac downloads at http://releases.llvm.org/download.html recently requiring latest MacOS

[Vedant Kumar via llvm-dev]

Hi Zac,

Thanks for the heads-up. I've started targeting a minimum macOS deployment target of 10.9 for the release binaries.

Hope this helps. Let me know if there are any issues.

vedant

> On May 1, 2018, at 4:13 PM, Zac Hansen via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> The past few packages on http://releases.llvm.org/download.html <http://releases.llvm.org/download.html> for mac have required the latest version of mac os.  Previously they were built for 10.5 (I believe).
> 
> I was just wondering if there is a technical reason for this change in requirements and if not, if it could be revered.  I have systems I actively use which are 10.10 and 10.11 and it would be awesome if I didn't have to build new releases, as it takes quite a while on my older hardware.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> P.S.  If anyone needs to build a release for themselves, I believe the process is:
> 
> clone LLVM from github - https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm <https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm>
> 
> get target OS darwin version from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)> - in the example below I'm building for 14.5.0
> 
> llvm/utils/release/test-release.sh -release 6.0.0 -final -triple x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0
> 
> results in: llvm/utils/release/final/clang+llvm-6.0.0-x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0.tar.xz
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